Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine 2022 Annual Report

REPORT ANNUAL 2022

THE CENTER

EVOLVING AND GROWING LEGACY

This has been a momentous year for the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (Center). At the same time that our educational programming was evolving and growing, construction began on our new three-building Center complex in the heart of UArizona medical campus. It’s an exciting time to work concurrently on these two foundations that are creating the Center’s legacy.

We have expanded our Foundational Fellowship Curriculum (FFC) partnerships. In fall 2022 Maharishi International University (MIU) began offering the Center’s FFC as the core of their Fellowship in Integrative Medicine with an emphasis on Ayurvedic Medicine. And the Center partnered with the oncology fellowships at the UArizona and the Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale to create and offer a Fellowship program in Integrative Medicine Hematology Oncology (IMHO). The first five IMHO Fellows enrolled this year.

Medical student training grew as well. The Integrative Medicine Distinction Tract (IMDT) program, a four-year commitment for medical students had 76 graduates and is now licensed to the University of California–Irvine. At the same time, Integrative Medicine Elective Rotation (IMER) for fourthyear students and residents reached almost 600 alumni.

Equally encouraging is the response to our programming for the public. Our Body of Wonder podcast offers conversations with Integrative Medicine (IM) experts from diverse fields. The show averages 10,000 listeners per month.

Innovation has enabled us to grow professional development as well. For the 2022 Integrative Medicine in Residency Faculty Development Meeting held in Tucson, we initiated a dual option of in-person and virtual. The theme of Wellbeing set the perfect tone for these faculty that represent 109 institutions globally and almost 3,000 residents.

We also organized hybrid residential weeks for the Fellows, with in-person and virtual options. The combined residential events served more than 250 Fellows. Additionally, 2,200 healthcare professionals attended our 2022 Integrative Medicine Summit.

A new partnership with the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation (AHNCC) will enlarge the Center’s Integrative Health & Lifestyle Program (IHeLp) enrollment and provide training and professional development opportunities. Nurses who have completed IHeLp will be able to sit for the AHNCC certification exam.

And most gratifying is an innovative partnership with the UArizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Arizona Experiment Station. We’ve launched an initiative to better understand the role food plays in inflammation and healthy immune responses. This leading-edge research has the potential to influence resilience, self-care, and optimal health and wellbeing.

What a wonderful year! Our Center Family continues to flourish and to build toward legacy. We are grateful to you for the support that helped make all this possible!

Best in health,

LEADERSHIP

ANDREW WEIL, MD

Founder and Director, Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Lovell–Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Medicine

VICTORIA MAIZES, MD Executive Director, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Family Medicine and Public Health, Andrew Weil Endowed Chair in Integrative Medicine

ESTHER M. STERNBERG, MD Director of Research,

Director, UArizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance, Professor of Medicine, Andrew Weil Endowed Chair for Research in Integrative Medicine

RANDY HORWITZ, MD, PHD, FACP Medical Director, Director, Integrative Medicine Distinction Track, Professor of Clinical Medicine

ANN MARIE CHIASSON, MD, MPH Director, Fellowship in Integrative Medicine, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

DEVORAH MORRIS CORYELL Director, Integrative Medicine Elective Rotation

PATRICIA LEBENSOHN, MD Director of Academic Collaborations, Professor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine

MARI RICKER, MD, FAAFP Director, Integrative Medicine in Residency, Professor of Family and Community Medicine

LISE ALSCHULER, ND Associate Director, Fellowship in Integrative Medicine, Professor of Clinical Medicine

MOLLY K. BURKE, MFA Director of Online Education

STEPHANIE FEDER Director of Business Development

ROBERT L. CROCKER, MD

Director, Strategic Clinical Planning and Implementation, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

SCOTT GIMPLE, MBA Director of Operations

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE SUMMIT 2022

THE CENTER’S NATIONAL CONFERENCES PROVIDE A PLATFORM TO BRING THE MOST CURRENT IM RESEARCH RESULTS AND APPLICATIONS TO LARGE AUDIENCES.

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE SUMMIT 2022: TRANSLATING SCIENCE INTO CLINICAL PRACTICE

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

May 6, 2022

More than 2,200 attended the 100% virtual conference that brought together physicians, researchers, experts, and authors exploring leading-edge integrative health topics including Psychedelic-assisted Psychotherapy, Geroscience: Where the Science is Advancing on Optimal Aging, and more.

WAYS WE CONNECT

EXPANDING OUR ONLINE PUBLIC PROGRAMMING AND PATIENT CARE

BODY OF WONDER

In this podcast, Drs. Andrew Weil and Victoria Maizes host insightful conversations with thought-provoking doctors, specialists, researchers, and authors. They delve into ideas that are changing medicine and discuss the latest research. On average, the show has 10,000 audio stream/plays per month.

The most popular 2022 Body of Wonder episodes were:

CONTINUING THE LEARNING

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE SUMMIT 2023: TRANSLATING SCIENCE INTO CLINICAL PRACTICE

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

April 28, 2023

Another virtual conference for an exciting day of exploring topics that include: IM and the Future of Healthcare, Healing-Centered Engagement, and Novel Approaches to Gut Health.

SAVE THE DATE

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE SUMMIT 2024

APRIL 24-25, 2024

Tucson, Arizona

We return to in-person conferencing with the Integrative Medicine Summit 2024.

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ANSWERING LISTENERS’ HEALTH & WELLNESS QUESTIONS with Victoria Maizes, MD and Andrew Weil, MD

LIVING LONGER, HEALTHIER, AND WITH PURPOSE - LESSONS FROM BLUE ZONE POPULATIONS with journalist Dan Buettner

RHEUMATOLOGY - GETTING TO THE ROOT OF AUTOIMMUNE CONDITIONS with Aly Cohen, MD

Available Platforms

PLANTING THE SEED OF HUMAN WELLNESS

The Center is partnering with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Arizona Experiment Station to launch an initiative studying the impacts of nutrition on inflammation resolution.

The collaboration will take root at the Arizona Experiment Station’s Campus Agricultural Center, a 160-acre research station located three miles North of the UArizona’s main campus in Tucson. The facility serves the university’s land-grant mission to bring evidence-based science to the public and advance research in the areas of food security, energy and water use efficiency, veterinary medicine, biotechnology, and human health.

Working to flip the switch from a disease-focused approach towards promoting optimal human health, the collaborative will allow research participants to be seen in a newly renovated clinical translational space at the Campus Agricultural Center.

Biomedical analytics for the initiative will be led by J. Ray Runyon, PhD, assistant research professor in the department of Environmental Science and the Center’s Stress Challenge/Sweat Collection/Sweat Biomarker lab director, using a state-of-the art liquid chromatography mass spectrometer at the Arizona Experiment Station.

The initiative will leverage the research team’s expertise to foster interactive community wellness and provide a better understanding of the role food plays in resilience to inflammation and healthy immune responses.

“The facilities and cutting-edge instrumentation that has become available through this collaboration provide an unprecedented opportunity for transformative discovery-based research concerning the relationship between nutrition, inflammation and human wellness,” said Parker Antin, PhD, Associate Vice President for Research in the Division of Agriculture, Life & Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

FELLOWSHIP IN INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE

Teaches a transformative method of patient care with emphasis on the individual, prevention, and treatment. Its alumni [2,101] and current enrollees [252] hail from all over the U.S. and 26 countries and territories.

INTEGRATIVE HEALTH & WELLNESS COACHING PROGRAM

With 121 alumni and 33 current enrollees, is certified by the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching as an approved training program.

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE IN RESIDENCY

A competency-based curriculum that introduces IM to residents, is now in use at 109 institutional programs [106 nationwide and 3 international] and counts 2,971 residents [1,121 current and 1,850 alumni].

INTEGRATIVE HEALTH & LIFESTYLE PROGRAM

An interprofessional certificate program with compassion-centered curriculum emphasizing lifestyle change, totals 355 alumni from across the globe and 34 currently enrolled. Additionally, 24 nurses will begin training in 2023 through a program in partnership with the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation.

WELLNESS & LIFESTYLE SERIES

Offers five units in a flexible self-paced format, covering a variety of topics on integrative approaches to health— 76 enrollees have completed the Series.

NATIONAL CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE PRIMARY HEALTHCARE

Foundations in Integrative Health–12,287 lifetime enrolled.

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE ELECTIVE ROTATION

For fourth-year medical students and residents has doubled enrollment in the past year to 69 and counts 846 alumni.

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE DISTINCTION TRACK

Gives students the opportunity to study IM throughout their four years of medical school—College of Medicine–Tucson: 72 graduates and 45 current students. Our curriculum is also being used by the University of California–Irvine: 19 graduates and 25 current students.

PREVENTION AND WELLNESS

With 738 graduates and 32 currently enrolled, is a course for fourth-year medical students and residents.

EXCITING RESEARCH ON HEALTH & WELLBEING

THE CENTER’S RESEARCH PROGRAM STRIVES TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.

Healthcare provider burnout is real. In 2021 the Center launched the Healthcare Professional Wellbeing (HPW) course to address this issue. HPW explores foundational knowledge about wellbeing, as well as systemic and organizational issues unique to the healthcare system [e.g., strategies for physicians to build healthy resilience, manage chronic stress, prevent burnout, and practice mindfulness].

Almost 300 IMR residents enrolled in an HPW study to determine course impact on learners, measuring long term resiliency and wellbeing. This multi-site study showed benefits were evident after completion of the course, and maintained over six months. It demonstrated the potential impact of a brief online course on a broad variety of healthcare professionals with the possibility of feasible, easy to distribute, high impact intervention.

Study results are in preparation for conference presentation at the 2023 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine annual meeting.

SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED

GENEROUS DONORS AND FOUNDATIONS HAVE PROVIDED SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 2022

6

IHeLp Scholarships FOR LEARNERS WHO WORK WITH THE UNDERSERVED

$10,500

8

IHW Coaching Scholarships FOR LEARNERS WHO WORK WITH THE UNDERSERVED

$17,340

28 Fellowship Scholarships FOR LEARNERS WHO WORK WITH THE UNDERSERVED

$311,575

AWARDS

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE IN RESIDENCY (IMR) IS THE FIRST AND MOST EXTENSIVE NATIONAL CURRICULAR PROJECT TO INTRODUCE IM TO RESIDENTS. ANNUALLY, WE HONOR AN ACADEMIC FACULTY MEMBER WHOSE INNOVATION EXPANDS IMR’S INFLUENCE.

2022 INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE IN RESIDENCY INNOVATION AWARDEE

POOJA AMY SHAH, MD

Director, Integrative Medicine

Director, Musculoskeletal Education

Center for Family & Community Medicine

Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

Dr. Shah was selected by the Center’s National Advisory Board members for her development of the Integrative Medicine Track (IMT) for residents in Family Medicine at Columbia University. She created an interactive, online dashboard for residents, organized hands-on experiential activities and personally mentors each IMT resident. Additionally, Dr. Shah has applied IM skills into her weekly day-long Musculoskeletal Clinic bringing a new dimension and pain management consult at Columbia University.

CENTER FACULTY HONORED WITH INDIVIDUAL AWARDS THIS YEAR

ANN MARIE CHIASSON, MD, MPH

2022 American Board Of Integrative Medicine Physician of the Year (ABOIM) Awardee

For her contributions to the growth, recognition, and leadership of ABOIM

RANDY HORWITZ, MD, PHD, FACP

2022 William S. Silvers Integrative Allergy/ Immunology/Respiratory Annual Lecture Awardee, National Jewish Health, Denver

ANDREW WEIL, MD

2022 Integrative Healthcare Symposium Leadership Award

For his contributions that have shaped integrative healthcare and paved the wayfor other practitioners professionals

VICTORIA MAIZES, MD

2023 Bravewell Distinguished Service Award

In recognition of a leader who has made a significant impact on the history and mission of the Bravewell Academic Consortium

DEVELOPING NEW PROGRAMMING

OPPORTUNITIES

In 2022 the Center began offering a new Fellowship in Integrative Medicine Hematology Oncology (IMHO). It has been a long-held desire of the Center to create an Integrative Oncology fellowship program. The IMHO Fellowship was co-created with Drs. John Camoriano and Krisstina Gowin, Fellowship graduates and oncology faculty members, in collaboration with the Center’s associate fellowship director Lise Alschuler, ND.

To determine program needs, an Integrative Hematology Oncology Education Survey was sent to hematology/oncology, radiation oncology, and palliative care program directors, physicians, fellows, and internal medicine residents. In this national survey of 208 physicians:

• 64% expressed interest in an IMHO educational program

• IMHO training was perceived as valuable and desirable

• 87% believed that fellows should participate in IMHO research

The first IMHO Fellows enrolled in July 2022 (3 Mayo, 2 UArizona) in an IRB-approved pilot study. Application will be made to the Academic Consortium of Integrative Medicine & Health for IMHO Fellowship recognition by the American Board of Integrative Medicine.

THE AMERICAN HOLISTIC NURSES CREDENTIALING CORPORATION

The American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation (AHNCC) advances holistic nursing and nurse coaching through certification.

We are excited to announce that all nurses earning a certificate from our Integrative Health & Lifestyle program are eligible to sit for the holistic nurse certification exam thanks to a collaboration with AHNCC. Since the 2022 official announcement, 24 nurses joined other health professionals, to begin their educational path with the Center’s 2023 Class. Upon graduation in July, those nurses will have earned the required 48 continuing nurse education credits in holistic and integrative health to be eligible to sit for the AHNCC certification exam. AHNCC certifications in holistic nursing help clearly identify nurses with expertise in addressing the whole patient with a variety of integrative tools, with an emphasis on lifestyle and self-care.

JOHN CAMORIANO, MD Assistant Professor of Oncology Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, Arizona

KRISSTINA GOWIN, DO Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona

LISE ALSCHULER, ND, FABNO Associate Director Fellowship in Integrative Medicine Professor of Clinical Medicine

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

2022 CONSTRUCTION ON THE ANDREW WEIL CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE

Groundbreaking for the 30,000-square-foot Center occurred in May 2022 and construction is expected to be completed in fall 2023. The new facility will include three buildings surrounded by desert gardens and linked by a series of pathways. It was designed to embody our tenet of whole-person wellness and the principles of integrative health. Each building will represent an aspect of the whole person: mind, body and spirit.

“I am feeling total satisfaction and delight at seeing this construction. I think having this building right in the heart of the medical campus of the University of Arizona is a great statement of the progress we’ve made. Integrative Medicine is becoming mainstream.

“My hopes for the building are that it will attract people from all over the world who want to learn more about Integrative Medicine, and understand the mission of the our Center which is to transform medicine, medical education, and healthcare. We hope it will serve as a place to educate the public about self-care, wellness, and how to best use integrative therapies.”

“This building is called the Mind… where the minds of the people who do the work develop the content and the research concepts…using their creative vision for Integrative Medicine.

“That building we call the Body… where we’ll have our teaching kitchen…do yoga... We’ll be physically active in a variety of ways.

“And then, we also have the Spirit. That is our meditation space.

“In addition to being a place for education and training, this complex will serve as a ‘living lab’ for integrative medicine collaborative research on place and well-being.”

Dr. Victoria Maizes

“When I join[ed] the Center, my dream was to link[it with] the College of Medicine–Tucson, and the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture to carry out research and instantiate wellbeing in the built environment.

“It is exciting to see these two sides of my life’s work come together in this building complex: the research on the science of the mind-body connection, and the impact of the built environment on health.”

Dr. Esther Sternberg

REVENUE / FOUNDATION ACTIVITY

Philanthropy has always been the Center’s backbone of sustainability. We appreciate the trust of our longtime associates and look forward to new partnerships as we work to transform healthcare.

REVENUE BY

2022 ANNUAL REPORT FOUNDATION ACTIVITY

Deepest gratitude to the individual donors and family foundations that made this possible.

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